Hi! Welcome to my homepage. I’m Siran Dai (戴思然), a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS), supervised by Qingming Huang (黄庆明) (Professor at UCAS; IEEE Fellow) and Qianqian Xu (许倩倩) (Professor at ICT, CAS). I received a B.E. in Robotics Engineering from BJUT in 2022. My research interests include Self-supervised Learning and Information Theory.
🔥 News
- 2025.09: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
- 2025.09: One paper is accepted by TPAMI.
- 2025.06: Won first place in the CVDD and AVA workshops at CVPR 2025.
- 2025.02: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2025.
- 2024.10: Our paper “Not All Pairs are Equal: Hierarchical Learning for Average-Precision-Oriented Video Retrieval” received an Honourable Mention Award at ACM MM 2024.
- 2024.07: Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024.
- 2023.09: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
📝 Publications

Exploring Performance Degradation in Dense Tasks for Self-supervised Learning
Siran Dai, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen, Yang Liu, Qingming Huang. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. [Code]

Semantic Concentration for Self-Supervised Dense Representation Learning
Peisong Wen, Qianqian Xu, Siran Dai, Runmin Cong, Qingming Huang. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025. [Code]

Yang Liu, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen, Siran Dai, Qingming Huang. IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 24033-24044, 2025. [Code]

Not All Pairs are Equal: Hierarchical Learning for Average-Precision-Oriented Video Retrieval
Yang Liu, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen, Siran Dai, Qingming Huang. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 3828-3837, 2024. [Code]
DRAUC: An Instance-wise Distributionally Robust AUC Optimization Framework, Siran Dai, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen, Yang Liu, Qingming Huang. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023. [Code]
Regularized contrastive partial multi-view outlier detection, Yijia Wang, Qianqian Xu, Yangbangyan Jiang, Siran Dai, Qingming Huang. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 8711-8720, 2024.
Exploring Non-contrastive Self-supervised Representation Learning for Image-based Profiling, Siran Dai, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen, Yang Liu, Qingming Huang. CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Drug Discovery (CVPRW), 2025.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.06: First place in CVPR 2025 AVA Challenge of 3D Human Motion Generation Track.
- 2025.05: First place in CVPR 2025 Cell Line Transferability Challenge.
- 2024.10: ACM MM 2024 Honourable Mention Award.
- 2021.10: Xiaomi Special Scholarship.
- 2020.10: Xiaomi Special Scholarship.
- 2020.10: National Scholarship.
📖 Services
- Reviewer for NeurIPS 24/25
- Reviewer for ICLR 24/25
- Reviewer for AISTATS 24/25
- Reviewer for TPAMI/TCSVT/TMM
🎓 Education
- 2022.09 - Now, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS), Ph.D. student in Computer Applied Technology.
- 2018.09 - 2022.06, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), B.E. in Robotics Engineering.